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During two weeks in 2010, Fort Eustis police seized more than 10 types of the synthetic hallucinogen known as spice and charged more than 30 service members with related offenses. Four years later, the statistics are quite different. Drug tests administered to service members at Joint Base Langley Eustis have not detected a single case of spice usage since the federal fiscal year began in October. officials said. "I think the message is getting out," said Bruce McFadden, deputy chief of drug demand reduction at Langley-Eustis. Statistics kept by the Defense Department suggest that Langley-Eustis is not unique. A 2012 study of a random population of soldiers, sailors and...

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